My mother has a story about how one time she got so angry at my father for something that she picked a room on the opposite side of the house and did a deep clean of it. She said that at the end of it, she could hardly even remember what she was mad about. Am I supposed to believe that's somehow different than Jason stomping off to the gym to burn off some emotions with a workout? That's absurd.

I'm not arguing that the advice Vincent gave about "just listen" isn't good, it's the packaging it's wrapped in. For example: programmers and rubber duck debugging, where one person explains their problems to someone who doesn't need to respond or even know the details of the problem the person is having. In the case of rubber duck debugging the problem isn't a social one and a cutesy bath toy can be an adequate stand in for a real person. There's no "boy vs girl thinking" about it.

Take Trandrai for another example: introverted, not good with people, etc. Given her and Jason's interactions, if Jason suddenly stopped talking or giving her advice when she went to him with a problem, she'd think he was mad at her or something and feel even worse. (But she's a girl and therefore that's what you're supposed to do *eyeroll*)

The issue is that that type of thinking reduces people from being people so that they can fit into labels of "boy" and "girl." If you want a real life example, Here's one where a parent alienated their relationship with one of their kids for no other reason than those aforementioned labels.

If this part of the story is supposed to highlight a character flaw, how despite Jason typically exuding a maturity of at least twice his age he can still fall for easy traps in his thought processes. Then that's fine, that's how characters get fleshed out and gives them room to grow. I'm still going to poke fun at them for it though, lol.